The Evaluative Consequences of Hedges, Hesitations, and Intensifiers: Powerful and Powerless Speech Styles.

Hosman, Lawrence A.

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Publication Date: 1989

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The Evaluative Consequences of Hedges, Hesitations, and Intensifiers: Powerful and Powerless Speech Styles.

Hosman, Lawrence A.

Human Communication Research, v15 n3 p383-406 Spr 1989

Examines the separate and combined impact of hedges, hesitations, and intensifiers on perceptions of authoritativeness, sociability, character, and similarity, and the extent to which messages containing one or more of these language variables differ from a "prototypically" powerless message in evaluative consequences. (MS)

Descriptors: Communication Research, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Speech Communication, Speech Habits

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Language: English

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